Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

The Occupational Health Nurses will be available at the Vanderbilt Children's hospital on Thursday, 02/01/2018 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to provide Flu, Hepatitis B, MMR, TB, and TDaP vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Today marks 15 years since the initial National Wear Red Day, which was first observed to bring national attention to the fact that heart disease is the #1 killer of women, and to raise awareness of women’s heart health.

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) is a national organization that raises awareness and provides education on the crisis of homelessness and how it intersects with health. This presentation will provide an introduction to who the NHCHC is, their work, and the resources they provide. In addition the presenters will give an overview of the current state of homelessness across the nation and its impact on the lives of individuals experiencing homelessness. They will also highlight the competencies and value our Health Care for the Homeless Health Centers bring to combat the issue of homelessness and share the model our health centers use for services. The NHCHC aims to aim to: 1) increase access to care 2) Improve health outcomes and 3) Promote health equity.

Presenters:

Alaina Boyer, Director of Research, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Michael Durham, Technical Assistance Manager, National Health Care for the Homeless Council

Friday, February 2, 8:30 -10:00am

Metro Public Health Department-Lentz Centennial Room A

2500 Charlotte Ave., Nashville. TN 37209

Light Breakfast Provided

If you have lots of heterogeneous data, then document-oriented databases may be your solution. In this short workshop, we will show you how to set up Cloudant, a hosted version of CouchDB, and to query it using the map/reduce paradigm.

The focus of Enabling Innovation Initiative is to embrace a culture of innovation to promote discovery and to facilitate dissemination of new knowledge through entrepreneurial pathways to advance basic medical knowledge and ultimately improve patient care.

The Occupational Health Nurses will be available at The Vanderbilt University Hospital on Friday, 02/02/2018 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. to provide Flu, Hepatitis B, MMR, TB, and TDaP vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Join Barbara Moss as she presents information on the legal planning that we all need to do to answer questions such as: What are the steps we need to take to plan for the future? How can we document our wishes for end-of-life care? How does Medicare work? How will we pay for home care, assisted living, or nursing home care if we need it?

Professor of Pathology and Medicine

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Flexner Discovery Lecture Series features the world's most eminent scientists who speak on the highest-impact research and policy issues in science and medicine today.

February 8, 2018: sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics

Presenter: Bruce D. Gelb, MD

Gogel Family Professor and Director, Mindich Child Health and Development Institute

Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Anxiety and trauma-related disorders affect 30% of people across the lifespan and are highly impairing and disabling. Cognitive behavioral therapy is an effective treatment for anxiety disorders, however, of those patients who do receive treatment, only about 50% respond. Further, an estimated 77% of people who have anxiety disorders do not receive treatment. Thus, efforts to improve treatment effectiveness and access are sorely needed. In this talk, Dr. Niles will discuss prior and ongoing work targeting anxiety disorder mechanisms, including deficits in emotion regulation neural circuitry and hypervigilance for threat, to improve treatment outcome and aid in development of simple and efficient treatment paradigms that can be disseminated using the internet and mobile devices. She will present research showing that affect labeling can enhance exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety, and demonstrate the translation of attention bias modification treatment into a mobile app. Further, Dr. Niles will discuss the application of novel statistical methods for personalized medicine. She will show how these methods have the potential to improve treatment outcome in a randomized clinical trial of evidence-based anxiety treatment versus usual care and can facilitate personalization of treatment content to aid in broad dissemination of digital treatments that are tailored to the individual patient.

This is a house wide skin assessment survey conducted to determine the number of patients that have pressure ulcers at a single point in time. It is a quality initiative that provides useful information of how we are doing in preventing pressure ulcers , as well as how well we are documenting when patients are admitted with pressure ulcers

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

A caregiver support group allows you to share information and openly discuss your problems without judgment, to process your feelings, and to hear others talk about their situation. Participation can help you deal more effectively with your problems. The main thing the support group does is provide the feeling that you are not alone.

Research Overview· Our research aims to discover or develop new classes of molecules that are effective in preventing infections by bacterial and viral pathogens. There is an especially pressing need for identifying new classes of antibiotics that are effective against drug-resistant bacteria, and we place emphasis in this area.· Our lab carries out interdisciplinary research aimed at the discovery of biologically active natural products, also known as secondary metabolites; seeks to understand basic principles involved in protein-carbohydrate interactions and how these can be exploited to engineer therapeutics; and designs and synthesizes small molecules and peptides that block, or can be used to probe the events that lead to viral entry.

The Occupational Health Nurses will be available at the Vanderbilt University Hospital on Wednesday, 02/14/2018 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. to provide Flu, Hepatitis B, MMR, TB, and TDaP vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.

please call 831-4722 to page an OHC nurse to find where the cart is located at that time.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

HealthPluswants to support you in having a healthy pregnancy by offering Babies and You, a prenatal education program to encourage early and consistent prenatal care.

The program is offered to Vanderbilt faculty/staff, spouses, or dependent children. Educational sessions on various topics are offered monthly. A $50 incentive is offered to those registering in the first trimester, attending at least 3 of the monthly classes, and providing documentation of prenatal provider visits.

The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to describe the concept of Joint Commission Accreditation, including expectations and interview techniques during a site visit; review national patient safety goals and best practices, identify potential deficiencies during EOC and life safety survey, review elements of performance with staff qualifications, new staff orientation, and continuing education, and identify provisions of care that impact coordination of care across the continuum.

6.5 Contact Hours

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Be prepared -- attend an upcoming Joint Commission Readiness Forum

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) employees are invited to attend upcoming Joint Commission Readiness Forums hosted by the Accreditation and Standards team. Forums will be held the third and fourth Fridays of each month until the survey at the Strategy and Innovation Center located at 3401 West End Ave. Forums will provide participants with information to promote survey readiness.

The daylong training will consist of four, mandatory morning sessions and a selection of breakout sessions that participants choose from in the afternoon. A total of 6.5 hours of continuing education credits will be provided.

Training topics include:

Morning Session

Environment of Care and Life Safety: This session will focus the most commonly identified environmental safety concerns, including corridor clutter, fire safety compliance and cleanliness. Additionally, the session will review VUMC's processes and policies and discuss whether there are current practices within areas that do not meet the VUMC-set standards.

Infection Prevention: As one of the top nationally cited subjects, the Infection Prevention session will be crucial to addressing many central issues affecting patient safety and compliance. Topics will focus on the design and scope of VUMC's Infection Prevention Program, including:

CAUTI

CLASBI

Disinfection and sterilization

Reprocessing single-use devices

Storage and disposal of medical equipment, devices and supplies

Provision of Care, Record of Care: This session will identify and discuss care activities, including but not limited to:

Patients’ risks and interventions related to falls

The administration of moderate or deep sedation and anesthesia

Provision of blood and blood components

Comprehensive pain assessment

Tips and Survey 101: This session will focus on educating staff on who regulates VUMC. This may include but is not limited to:

Frequent citations/findings

Current enterprise regulatory risks

Events that trigger investigations

How Accreditation and Standards can assist you

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

National Patient Safety Goals and Patient Rights: This session will identify and discuss current National Patient Safety Goals, with the specific focus on alarm fatigue. The training includes education on the new clinical alarm policy and customizing alarms based on individual patient needs. In addition, this session will discuss other National Patient Safety Goals, such as universal protocol, patient safety risks and patient identification.

Medication Management: This session will focus on the construct of our safe medication management system which addresses our organization’s medication processes. This includes the following (as applicable to the individual group):

Planning

Selection and procurement

Storage

Ordering

Preparing and dispensing

Administration

Monitoring

Evaluation

What’s Hot/What’s Not:This session will focus on updates from The Joint Commission. The training will include information on The Joint Commission’s new scoring methodology the safer matrix. Individuals will get to use findings from the 2015 survey and apply to this methodology. Other topics covered will be information surrounding Sentinel Event Alerts #57 (developing a safety culture) and #58 (handover communication).

Ligature Risk Assessment:This session will be a workshop in identifying hazards in the environment that may lead to ligature risk.

Sterilization and High Level Disinfection:This session will focus on identifying essential steps involved in each stage of reprocessing reusable instrumentation.

Human Resources:This session will focus on understanding The Joint Commission (TJC) Human Resources standards and how to organize and deliver documents during a TJC survey. This includes what type of information should be located in employee files.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

An Occupational Health Nurse will be available at Williamson County on Friday, 02/16/2018 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. to provide Flu, Hep-B, MMR, TDAP, and TB vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

The Medical Center Staff Advisory Council (MCSAC) represents all staff members in the Vanderbilt Medical Center. MCSAC is an advisory group to the medical center administration for issues that are important to staff, such as policies, benefits and practices.

The Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB) presents Dr. Samuel Gellman, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Impact of Backbone Modifications on the Informational Properties of Polypeptides"

Key Lecture Points· Biological systems rely on two families of sequence-specific heteropolymers that adopt discrete conformations, proteins and RNA, to perform many complex functions. The fact that two very different biopolymers have these properties inspires chemists to explore the structures and functions unnatural sequence-specific heterooligomers.· Fundamental studies of "foldamers" led our laboratory to begin exploring the impact of site-specific backbone modifications on the biological properties of polypeptides.· We have identified peptides containing mixtures of alpha- and beta-amino acid residues that display useful biological activity profiles, such the ability to inhibit specific protein-protein interactions with low susceptibility to proteolytic degradation, or modulated signaling at specific cell-surface receptors.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

The purpose of this activity is to provide up to date education regarding care of the obstetric patient with selected high risk conditions so that the obstetric nurses’ role in providing quality care to the patient is enhanced.

6.4 contact hours available

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Flexner Discovery Lecture Series features the world's most eminent scientists who speak on the highest-impact research and policy issues in science and medicine today.

February 22, 2018: sponsored by the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, and the Center for Structural Biology

Presenter: Eric Gouaux, PhD

Senior Scientist, Vollum Institute

Jennifer and Bernard Lacroute Term Chair in Neuroscience Research

Investigator, HHMI

Title: Mechanisms of Signal Transduction and Clearance at the Chemical Synapses of the Brain

This panel will address issues of sexual harassment (SH) in the workplace from four perspectives: an attorney who has expertise in SH, two psychoanalysts who have treated both victims and perpetrators of SH, and a psychiatrist who works with impaired medical professionals. We wish to explore individual and systemic factors that cause SH and ways we might decrease its frequency.

The purpose of this activity is to enable the learner to describe the concept of Joint Commission Accreditation, including expectations and interview techniques during a site visit; review national patient safety goals and best practices, identify potential deficiencies during EOC and life safety survey, review elements of performance with staff qualifications, new staff orientation, and continuing education, and identify provisions of care that impact coordination of care across the continuum.

6.5 Contact Hours

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Nursing Education and Professional Development is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Do you need a summer camp for your child? If so, join us at our summer camp fair.

The 12th annual Summer Camp fair, brought to you by Vanderbilt Child and Family Center can help you make a summer camp choice that fits your needs.

Talk to a camp representatives from around the Middle Tennessee area as well as Vanderbilt sponsored camp. Talk with representatives from each of the camps, ask questions and register your child for a session, if you choose.

We are hosting Dr. Willie Parker in collaboration with Medical Students for Choice. He will draw on his experience do discuss, "Reproductive Health in the American South."

Dr. Willie J. Parker is an OB/GYN specializing in abortions and a reproductive justice advocate. He is a graduate of Berea College in Kentucky, and holds degrees from the University of Iowa College of Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Michigan. Board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and trained in preventive medicine and epidemiology through the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Parker currently provides abortion care for women in AL, MS, PA, GA, and IL, and is the former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Metropolitan Washington, DC.

His work includes a focus on violence against women, sexual assault prevention, and reproductive health rights through advocacy, provision of contraceptive and abortion services, and men's reproductive health. He is the chair of the board of Physicians for Reproductive Health, and a board member of The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and URGE. He was recently honored by the United Nations Office of Human Rights as one of twelve Women’s Human Rights Defenders on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women. He has also received Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award, the organization’s highest award; the “Champions of Choice” Award from NARAL, the oldest abortion rights advocacy group in the US; the George Tiller, MD, Abortion Provider Award from Physicians for Reproductive Health; and the Personal PAC Leadership award, among others.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

The Occupational Health Nurses will be available at Light Hall in the North lobby on Thursday, 02/28/2018 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to provide Flu, Hepatitis B, MMR, TB, and TDaP vaccines to Vanderbilt faculty and staff.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Participate in Know Your Numbers to measure blood pressure, weight and body mass index. These numbers can be used on your yearly Compass Health Assessment and Wellness Actions Log for the Go for the Gold program. It’s a convenient way to track your changes.

Key Lecture Points· We report a robust bioconjugation method using cysteine arylation.· This chemistry enables site-specific conjugation at cysteine residues within peptides, proteins, and antibodies.· Our two developed approaches use either perfluoroaryl-cysteine SNAr chemistry or organometallic palladium reagents.· This work led to the discovery of a self-labeling four-residue sequence that enables regioselective conjugation at only one cysteine residue within an intact antibody containing natural amino acids.· Recently, we discovered a new approach for the native conjugation of complex natural products such as vancomycin onto peptides and proteins without the introduction of linkers or chemical handles.

Through the exceptional capabilities and caring spirit of its people, Vanderbilt will lead in improving the healthcare of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally. We will combine our transformative learning programs and compelling discoveries to provide distinctive personalized care.